Destination Resources
Lectures
- The Viking Age
- Viking Women and their World
- The Vikings Head West
- Greenland 101
- Milestones in Icelandic History
- An Introduction to Icelandic Cuisine
- How Snorri Saved Civilization: The Icelandic Sagas
- Meet the Aesir
- Hygge & Herring: Nordic Customs, Culture, and Cuisine
- King Haakon’s War
- Milestones in Norwegian History
The Vikings
Books
- Ashby, Steven. Pocket Museum: Vikings.
- Brown, Nancy Marie. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman.
- Brown, Nancy Marie. Song of the Vikings.
- Brown, Nancy Marie. The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women.
- Brown, Nancy Marie. Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them.
- Brown, Nancy Marie. The Saga of Gudrid the Far-Traveler.
- Crawford, Jackson. The Wanderer’s Havamal.
- Durham, Keith. Viking Longship.
- Fadlan, Ibn. Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North.
- Friðriksdóttir, Jóhanna Katrín. Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World.
- Gaiman, Neil. Norse Mythology.
- Harrison, Mark. Viking Hersir 793–1066 AD.
- Hartley, Janet M. Volga: A History.
- Haywood, John. Northmen: The Viking Saga, AD 793-1241.
- Herman, Arthur. The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World.
- Jarman, Cat. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads.
- McCoy, Daniel. The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion.
- Oliver, Neil. The Vikings: A New History.
- Price, Neil. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings.
- Pye, Michael. The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe.
- Shippey, Tom. Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings.
- Smith, Michèle Hayeur. The Valkyries’ Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic.
- Williams, Gareth. The Viking Ship.
- Winroth, Anders. The Age of the Vikings.
Audio Visual Entertainment
Scandinavian History
Books
- Abulafia, David. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans.
- Boggis-Rolfe, Caroline. The Baltic Story: A Thousand-Year History of Its Lands, Sea and Peoples.
- Bolton, Timothy. Cnut the Great.
- Buckley, Veronica. Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric.
- Derry, T.K. A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.
- Dyrvik, Stale. Norway: A History from the Vikings to Our Own Times.
- Hard, Geirr H. The German Invasion of Norway: April 1940.
- Jespersen, Knud, J.V. A History of Denmark (Bloomsbury Essential Histories).
- Kent, Neil. A Concise History of Sweden.
- Kersaudy, Francois. Norway 1940 (World War II).
- Kirby, David. A Concise History of Finland.
- Nordstrom, Byron J. Scandinavia since 1500.
- Palecek, Mike. Hidden Heroes: World War II in Norway.
- Palmer, Alan. Bernadotte: Napoleon’s Marshal, Sweden’s King.
- Pearson, Robert. Gold Run: The Rescue of Norway’s Gold Bullion from the Nazis, 1940.
- Pugnetti, Don. A Coat Dyed Black: A Novel of the Norwegian Resistance.
- Ringen, Stein. The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy.
- Stratigakos, Despina. Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway.
- Voltaire, Francois. The history of Charles XII, king of Sweden.
- Winroth, Anders. The Conversion of Scandinavia.
- Yilek, John A. History of Norway.
Audio Visual Entertainment
Historical Fiction set in Scandinavia
- Cherezinska, Elzbieta, The Widow Queen.
- Cherezinska, Elzbieta, The Last Crown: A Novel
- Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy).
Nordic Customs, Culture & Cuisine
- Accettala, Nichole. Scandinavian from Scratch: A Love Letter to the Baking of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
- Bajada, Simon. Nordic Light: Lighter, Everyday Eating from a Scandinavian Kitchen.
- Booth, Michael. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia.
- Goldstein, Darra. Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking [A Cookbook].
- Hayden, Barbara. Hygge: Unlock the Danish Art of Coziness and Happiness.
- Hayden, Barbara. Lagom: What You Need to Know About the Swedish Art of Living a Balanced Life.
- Kingsley, Patrick. How to Be Danish: A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark.
- Heiskanen, Susanna. Nordic Lifestyle: Embrace Slow Living, Cultivate Happiness and Know When to Take Off Your Shoes.
- Nilsson, Magnus. The Nordic Cookbook.
- Nilsson, Magnus. The Nordic Baking Book.
- Partanen, Anu. The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life.
- Willing, Meik. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well.
Iceland
Icelandic History
- Bjarnason, Egill. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island.
- Block, Jesse L. Viking Age Iceland.
- Krakauer, Jon. Iceland: Land of the Sagas.Magnussibm, Magnus. Iceland Saga.
- Ari þorgilsson, The Book of the Settlement of Ic.eland: Tr. From the Original Icelandic of Ari the Learned.
- Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi. Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland.
Icelandic Sagas
- Anonymous. The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason’s Tale.
- Anonymous. Egil’s Saga (Penguin Classics).
- Anonymous. Njal’s Saga.
- Anonymous. The Saga of the Volsungs.
- Anonymous. The Vinland Sagas.
- Byock, Jesse L.L. Feud in the Icelandic Saga.
- Kellogg, Robert. The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition).
- Ross, Margaret Clunies. The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga.
- Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings.
- Sturluson, Snorri. The Prose Edda.
Icelandic Culture & Cuisine
- Bjork, Katrin. From the North: A Simple and Modern Approach to Authentic Nordic Cooking.
- Brown, Nancy Marie. A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse.
- Brown, Nancy Marie. Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth.
- Carr, Toni. The Lopapeysa Sweater: A Journey North in Search of Iceland’s Iconic Knitwear.
- Gíslason, Gunnar Karl. North: The New Nordic Cuisine of Iceland [A Cookbook].
- Jouanne,. Bertrand. Stunning Iceland: The Hedonist’s Guide.
- Jónsdóttir, Nína Björk, How To Live Icelandic.
- Magnusson, Helene. Icelandic Handknits: 25 Heirloom Techniques and Projects.
- Lacy, Terry G. Ring of Seasons: Iceland–Its Culture and History.
- Laxness, Halldor. Independent People.
- Matt, Gisli. Slippurinn: Recipes and Stories from Iceland.
- Millman, Lawrence. Last Places: A Journey in the North.
- Reid, Eliza. Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World.
- Rögnvaldardóttir, Nanna. Icelandic Food and Cookery
- Sigmundsdottir, Alda. The Little Book of the Icelanders: 50 Miniature Essays on the Quirks and Foibles of the Icelandic People.
I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. This web page contains Amazon and other affiliate links, and by clicking them I may earn a commission, but never at any additional charge to you. I use the revenue to support the development and maintenance of my web site and to purchase the software that makes producing free digital products like this one possible. If you do choose to buy through one of my links, thank you for your support.
